Questions & Answers about Ég set peysu og úlpu á mig þegar haustið byrjar.
Setja is the infinitive form of the verb “to put (something somewhere).”
In the present tense, it changes according to the subject:
- ég set – I put
- þú setur – you (sg.) put
- hann / hún / það setur – he / she / it puts
- við setjum – we put
- þið setjið – you (pl.) put
- þeir / þær / þau setja – they put
So with ég (I), the correct present form is set, not setja.
The pattern “infinitive ends in -a, 1st person singular ends in a consonant” is very common in Icelandic verbs (e.g. tala → ég tala, læra → ég læri, setja → ég set).